This Election Has Been Both Frustrating and Inspiring for Teen Girls

According to a New York Times poll.

A new poll from the New York Times studies the impact of the election on teenage girls, and it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect: simultaneously inspiring and frustrating. For example, while about 25% of the girls age 14 to 17 interviewed said that Hillary Clinton's candidacy made them want to pursue a position of leadership in the future, 17% said it made them less likely to want to be a leader. For Trump, the numbers were about reversed at 15 and 27% respectively.

"Although you’re told from a young age that you can be a president even though you’re a woman, you’ve never been shown you can do it, so this makes girls think they can," Jaelyn Justesen, 14, told reporter Claire Cain Miller.

More conclusive and startling than any of the leadership numbers, however, is the impact Trump's comments have had on the interviewee's views of themselves. 42% said his comments have impacted the way they think about their bodies.

"That hits me hard when people like Trump say people who are skinnier than I am are too big," said Morgan Lesh, 15. "It makes me feel extremely insecure about myself."

"Especially for girls in high school, rating girls on a scale of 1 to 10 does not help because it really does get into your head that they think I’m ugly or I don’t look good," Morgan's friend Jordan Barrett, 14, added.